Funding for group actions
Our team at Hudgell Solicitors have been instructed in a number of group actions. We are committed to ensuring our clients have the best legal representation and we work to ensure that funding options are available, and any necessary insurances are in place.
What group action claims do we deal with?
What group action claims do we deal with?
Strength in numbers through multi-party actions
Group actions, multi-party actions or group litigation cases are run when a significant number of claimants have closely related or similar claims arising from the same event. This type of action provides one route for individuals with similar complaints to join together against a negligent party, bringing benefits including greater strength in numbers, and potentially a faster and easier route towards the settlement of cases.
Situations where group actions may be beneficial
Group Actions usually fall into three main categories;
- Sudden disasters which result in significant numbers of personal injury or fatal accident claims.
- Ongoing claims which arise from a single cause –Â for example from a defective drug or product.
- Claims involving the consumer, including personal injury, defective goods or services.
- Injuries caused by defective medical products
- Injuries caused by negligence of a particular hospital /surgery or medical professional impacting upon a large number of patients.
Our group actions experience
Our legal teams have vast amounts of expertise due to their involvement with high profile cases which include;
- The Manchester Bombing – We represented families who lost loved ones in the attack at Public Inquiry and now support more than 170 injured survivors in personal injury claims.
- The Post Office Horizon IT Scandal – We helped more than 70 former sub-postmasters have wrongful convictions overturned and are pursing damages for malicious prosecution.
- The Covid-19 Public Inquiry – Our legal team made representations on behalf of three groups to be involved in the Covid-19 Inquiry.
First £600,000 payment secured for former subpostmaster from Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme – with dozens more set to receive damages
A former subpostmaster has told how she finally feels ‘burden free’ and intends to buy the home she has always wanted after receiving £600,000 compensation as part of the new Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme. The woman, who has asked not to be named, received her letter from the Ministry of Justice in August confirming her […]
Former sub-postmistress has named cleared in court after 20 years – and heads straight to Public Inquiry to see Paula Vennells give evidence
Six more former Subpostmasters had long-standing convictions relating to the Post Office Horizon scandal quashed in court this morning – as former chief executive Paula Vennells began giving her long-awaited evidence at the Public Inquiry. Having lived for two decades wrongfully labelled a convicted criminal, former Merseyside sub-postmistress Sushma Blaggan headed straight from the Royal […]
Manchester Arena bombing victim Paul Price supported by Hudgell Solicitors & Day One Trauma
Paul Price suffered catastrophic injuries in the Manchester Arena terror attack in 2017. Even more tragically he also lost his partner Elaine, a serving police officer, who died at the scene. Paul and Elaine were waiting for his 13-year-old daughter and friend to come out of the Ariana Grande concert when the explosion happened. The […]
Former subpostmaster, 81, finally set to receive more than £200,000 compensation – but it’s still ‘too little and too late’
A lawyer representing a victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal who is set to receive more than £200,000 compensation says his case has taken ‘two years too long’ to reach this stage – and that the settlement offered is ‘still too little’ given the suffering he has endured. Francis Duff, 81, was forced out […]
Neil Hudgell : Many subpostmasters can’t mentally endure this ongoing political blame game, nor the tortuously slow compensation process
Neil Hudgell was asked by the i newspaper this week to comment on why victims’ stories must not be lost in the fray of political fighting around the Post Office Horizon scandal. Below is his article in full. As we continue to seek full and fair compensation for all who have suffered at the hands […]
‘Post Office took thousands from us – now we’re being denied proper compensation because it won’t admit causing us to go bankrupt’
Like hundreds of others, Tony Downey’s dream of running a rural Post Office turned into a nightmare. Continuing shortfalls in his branch accounts – caused by the faulty Horizon accounting system – led to him losing his livelihood, declaring himself bankrupt and suffering from crippling anxiety and depression. Such was the impact on life, he […]
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